Peasant Party of Ukraine

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The Peasant Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Селянська партія України, Selyans'ka Partiya Ukrayiny, SelPU) is an agrarian and socialist[1] political party in Ukraine. It was created in 1992[2] as a successor of the Communist Party of Ukraine that was temporarily outlawed in 1991.[3]

Peasant Party of Ukraine
Селянська партія України
LeaderZynoviy Kholodniuk
Founded25 January 1992
HeadquartersKyiv
IdeologyAgrarianism
Agrarian socialism
Political positionCentre-left to left-wing
ColoursYellow, Blue
Website
selpu.com

At the Ukrainian parliamentary election in 1994, the party obtained 2.74% of the votes and 19 out of 450 seats in the Verkhovna Rada. At the Ukrainian parliamentary election in 1998, it gained in coalition with the Socialist Party of Ukraine 8.56% of the vote and 35 seats.[4] The SelPU faction in the Verkhovna Rada consisted of 14 deputies.[citation needed] After the creation of the new parliamentary faction Solidarity in 2000, a lot of deputies of the party moved to this new faction.[5]

The following elections were not successful for the party. In the elections of 2002 the party won 0.37% of the votes, in 2006 0.31% and in the 2007 elections the party did not participate.[2]

In the 2004 presidential elections, the party supported the candidature of Viktor Yanukovych.

In 2011, the party decided to join the Socialist Party of Ukraine.[6] On 28 January 2012, this decision was declared illegal by the Justice Ministry.[7]

The party did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[8]

In 2019, it supported Yulia Tymoshenko as a presidential candidate.[9]

Elections result

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References

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  1. ^ Broadleft.org
  2. ^ a b "Селянська партія України". DA-TA (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  3. ^ Establishment of national statehood. History of Ukraine
  4. ^ Project on Political Transformation and the Electoral Process in Post-Communist Europe
  5. ^ Ukrainian Political Update by Taras Kuzio and Alex Frishberg, Frishberg & Partners, 21 February 2008 (page 22)
  6. ^ Information Agency UNIAN
  7. ^ Ukraine Business Online
  8. ^ Alphabetical Index of parties in 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  9. ^ "Селянська партія підтримала Юлію Тимошенко на виборах президента України". Interfax-Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 20 March 2023.
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